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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Missing sex organs.
(c) Death.
(d) Violence.

2. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Denial and hatred.
(b) Rejection and fear.
(c) Lawlessness and insubordination.
(d) Religion and morality.

3. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its explicitness.
(b) Its lucidity.
(c) Its ambiguity.
(d) Its universality.

4. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A person which should be alive.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A living being.
(d) Someone who never lived.

5. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Angry.
(b) Evil.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Anti-social.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

2. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

3. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

4. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

5. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

(see the answer key)

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